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Analysis of Angle Type Fixed Section Support Structure in Switchgear
Amit Shende1, Vaibhav Bankar2
1 Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering. , VIT, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India 2 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. , VIT, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract - The requirement of performing the
detailed designing and analysis of support structure
observed due to failures in the site conditions. In the
initial days it had to be checked with manual
calculations or laboratory testing. But the improvement
in the virtual manufacturing of machine and its
components provides elevated support to the designers
for understanding the behaviour of design in real world
conditions and making decisions to best fit for that
situation. This knowledge helps designers to build
better design in terms of efficiency, reliability and cost.
There are various computer aided designing i.e. CAD
tools available and are capable of building the exact
model of the intended design for study and analysis
purpose. The purpose of this paper is to finite element
modelling and analysis of Straight Angle section
support structure of switchgear in consideration of
actual loading conditions using ANSYS. The angle
section is used because it is low in weight and
affordable cost.
Key Words: Computer aided designing (CAD), Support
structure, Finite element analysis (FEA), Switchgear,
Angle Section.
1. INTRODUCTION Switchgears are very important and critical part in power transmission and distribution network. It is used to connect the power source with the consumers via various transmission equipments. Being one the most critical equipment the switchgear has a role to serve of carrying, making and braking the current flowing through it in normal as wel as short circuit conditions. The Support structure of the switchgear is the most basic and very important part. It looks very simple but has play an important role in the equipment. It has to be rigid enough to carry the dead load of the switchgear, keep it at the elevated height and withstand the various loads acting on the equipment such as Wind Load, Operation Load and Cable load in both static as wel as dynamic condition. The verification of High Voltage Switchgear is performed according to IEC 67721-100 [3] using FEA software Ansys. The different loads combined and applied
to get the cumulative effects of the all load on the support structure.
1.1 Finite Element Model of Support Structure Actual Fig. 1 of the switchgear equipment in working condition is shown below. The switchgear comprises of Interrupting unit elevated by Supporting pole unit which is placed on Baseframe fastened by hardwares. The mechanism unit is attached to Baseframe on its vertical face. The Baseframe and Control box unit are placed on the support structure by using of nuts and bolts of various metric sizes. ANSYS model of support structure is shown in fig. 2. The model is imported to ANSYS workbench for the analysis purpose. The support structure selected for this study is made up of 4 ISA angles of size 75x75x8 mm thick sections kept parallel to each other by welding the top and bottom plates of steel. Battens are welded between the parallel angles at regular distance. Stiffeners are welded in between the channels and plates for strengthening. The structure is meshed fine in hexahedron solid elements with total number of nodes are 24211 and total number of elements are 10237.
Fig -1: Switchgear in working condition
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Fig -2: Finite Element model of the support structure The material used for support structure is steel and its properties are mentioned in Table 1. Table -1: Material Properties
Property Steel
Young’s modulus (MPa) 21000
Poisson’s Ration 0.3
Density (kg/mm3) 7.85E-6
Yield Strength (MPa) 250/355*
The top and bottom plates of the support structure have yield strength of 355 MPa, while for channel material (IS: 2062-E250).
1.2 Type of Loadings The structure has to withstand number of loads as per IS: 875 are listed below:
- Dead load - Wind Load - Imposed loads
Operating load Cable load Short Circuit load
2. LOADING CONDITIONS As per IS: 800, clause 3.4.2.1, load combinations are:- 1) Dead loads + Imposed loads 2) Dead loads + Imposed loads + Wind load (X dir.) 3) Dead loads + Imposed loads + Wind load (Y dir.) A) Load case – 1 In this case of loading the combination of loads is applied at same instant on the top of support structure. Typical loads are summarized and shown below in Table 2.
Table -2: Summary of Load Case - 1 SN
Loading Vertical (kN)
Horizontal-X (kN-m)
Horizontal-Y (kN-m)
1 Dead Load 27.5 2 Operating Load 26.2 6.3 3 Cable load
(Static) 1.5 8.5 6.1
Total 55.2 14.8 6.1 B) Load case – 2 Typical loads are summarized & shown below in Table 3. Table -3: Summary of Load Case - 2 SN
Loading Vertical (kN)
Horizontal-X (kN-m)
Horizontal-Y (kN-m)
1 Dead Load 27.5 2 Operating Load 26.2 6.3 3 Cable load
(Dynamic) 3.0 17.0 12.1
4 Wind Load (x) 3.8 Total 56.7 27.1 12.1 C) Load case – 3 Typical loads are summarized & shown below in Table 3. Table -4: Summary of Load Case - 3 SN
Loading Vertical (kN)
Horizontal-X (kN-m)
Horizontal-Y (kN-m)
1 Dead Load 27.5 2 Operating Load 26.2 6.3 3 Cable load
(Dynamic) 3.0 17.0 12.1
4 Wind Load (Y) 17.5 Total 56.7 23.3 29.6
3. FEM ANALYSIS The analysis for all the 3 loading conditions is performed with ANSYS 16.0 Workbench. The results are displayed as below. Fig. 3-11 shows graphical representation of Ansys model showing Equivalent stress and Total deformation. Table 5 gives the summary of all 3 load cases comparison with permissible limit and design factor of safety (FOS).
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Fig -3: Load case 1- Vertical Load
Fig -4: Load case 1- Bending Moment (X)
Fig -5: Load case 1- Bending Moment (Y)
Fig -6: Load case 2- Vertical Load
Fig -7: Load case 2- Bending Moment (X)
Fig -8: Load case 2- Bending Moment (Y)
Fig -9: Load case 3- Vertical Load
Fig -10: Load case 3- Bending Moment (X)
Fig -11: Load case 3- Bending Moment (Y) Table -5: Summary of Results SN
Maximum Load condition
Load Stress (MPa)
Deflection (mm)
Stress Limit (MPa)
FOS
1 Vertical load-Case 2
56.7 kN
4.6 0.05 114.7 25
2 Bending moment(X)-Case2
27.1 kN-m
104.7 11.7 165 1.6
3 Bending moment(Y)-Case2
29.6 kN-m
110 13 165 1.5
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The limit stress values are considered as per IS: 800- 2007 [1] and Chap no. 6, page no. 117, Design of steel structure, second edition [2].
4. CONCLUSIONS Support structures in any substation equipment can be designed and analyzed by using FEM simulation. The different loads can be considered as per the actual site conditions. Analysis results for different load cases can be used to evaluate if equivalent stress values are under the permissible stress and deformation is under control. The use of simulation software reduces the time & cost for prototype development and testing. Further to this work, the stresses are wel within the limit. The deformation needs to be controlled by further redesigning the support structure.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regard to my Prof. V.H. Bankar, VIT, Nagpur for his exemplary guidance, valuable feedback and constant encouragement throughout the duration of this research work. His valuable suggestions were of immense help throughout my work. His perceptive criticism kept me working to make this research paper in a much better way. Working under him was an extremely knowledgeable experience for me. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to management of Siemens Ltd., India for allowing me to publish this paper and providing me the necessary facilities.
REFERENCES [1] IS:800 (2007), General construction in steel – code of
Practise. [2] L. S. Negi, “Design of steel structures”, Second Edition,
Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, ISBN-10: 0-07046205-2
[3] IS:875 (1987), Code of practice for design loads (other than earthquake) for building and structures.
[4] Mahendran Mahen, Application of finite element analysis in structural engineering, International
conference on computer aided engineering, Chennai, India, (2007).